skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more common for state governments to join forces to define standards for data, performance, features, and interoperability, and then require contractors to comply in the contract language.

I'm not aware of many contracts for bespoke software in the state government space; it's far more frequent that someone identifies a need and then develops a solution to bring to market.
A star light-years away also looks the same, and it's pretty hilarious when they're mistaken for "drones"
Most likely that's illegal in DE, FR and PL. See a related thread about trains at CCC.
DivestOS was a good ROM that combined the functionality of LineageOS with security of graphreem. It will be missed.
It came down do an instant where people were given a choice of two levers. The government does not control them at that point. They make their choice freely.

The American people said what we want, and deserve to get it, good and hard.
This is strongly politicized in Poland, there have been many commissions and expertises, and despite most Poles thinking all the worst about Russia - majority (me included) does not believe it to be on purpose.
Well, that depends on what you eat. Do you eat meat, or are you vegan?

Breathing is a physical action, so there isn’t much to debate there. However, even some physical actions—like using the bathroom—can have political or cultural dimensions. For instance, why do you use a toilet instead of a bidet, as is common in parts of Europe or South America? That choice is shaped by cultural and economic factors that influence your behavior.
Okay .... so until then we stick our heads in the sand?

No additional regulations on tech and energy use? Continued subsidizes for oil and gas extraction? Nothing at all until someone cracks carbon capture?

Because it seems like hoping for a Hail Mary is either very optimistic or so pessimistic that you've given up.
Founder/Former CEO Ian Crosby's post about the Bench closure:

https://x.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
a paragraph about what it is and how it's intended to be used and documentation on it's API, assuming it has an API, would be useful.
From the Korean air incident: "As a result of the incident...President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making American satellite-based radio navigation Global Positioning System freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good."
You can connect and run SQL, but there’s no built in support for versioning, testing, and rolling back DDL.
Most likely that they are usibg the gravity assists to decrease the orbit (e.g. slow down) not to increase the speed. As your orbit gets more and more elliptical, your closest point to the celestial body gets closer and your actual speed relative to the celestial body increases dramatically.

It sounds contradictory, but think of that in this way: you have an incredible amount of energy stored in potential energy relative to sun and by decreasing your orbit you convert this to kinetic energy.

Think about falling into the sun from several billion kilometers, but just missing it slightly because you still have a bit of horizontal momentum left.
You can tell. The tiresome lists.
https://moz.gov.ua/uk/v-ukrayini-vidnovleno-majzhe-900-ob-ye...
Not medics but medical facilities and the number is even bigger it's just that I gave number from wiki so people would not start complaining.
Cloudflare Durable Objects have alarms you can use to imitate cron, and have storage built-in (there's even support for SQLite databases attached to DOs in beta)
Hitting the sun is actually surprisingly hard. It’s harder than leaving the solar system. Earth orbits at around 30km/s and you need 42km/s (+12km/s) to escape orbit.
If you look at any map of antibiotic resistance, it is quite obvious where the problem is.
I wonder what the legal line is that makes speech or affiliation into aiding and abetting?
There’s also the added layer that if you admit the place you’re working at is doing something wrong/immoral, not only do you suddenly feel a conscience-driven pressure to do something about it (leave even) but also it opens the door that maybe you had been contributing to something “evil” this whole time and either didn’t catch it or ignored it. Nobody wants to believe they were doing something wrong basically every day.
I'm not going to claim it was fun, but it sure beat using one of those standalone nav calculators!
Yeah I also searched for a quick select in ghostty while checking now. I am probably too deep in wezterm with my lua configuration anyway, but still.
Hey everybody -- I'm the founder and CEO of Afino. We offer all of the same services as Bench and ready to help any founder affected by this sudden shutdown.

Check out our services on our site (www.afino.ai) and book a priority meeting to talk to me and my team (https://app.reclaim.ai/m/afino/priority-intro)
Reminds me of this classic: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/imbehnam_my-car-is-allergic-t...
Not sure why you are downvoted. It’s a difficult problem, but lots of angles on how to deal with it.

For example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15176
To be clear: if they absolutely know how the magician did it, they do NOT award the prize.

They do award the prize if they know there's more than one way the person could have done it, but they cannot tell for sure which one was it.

And they make it clear their show is not about the prize anyway, it's about the wonder of watching cool magic acts. The prize is a gimmick (but still, it's always fair and never staged).

They always celebrate good magic, regardless of whether they can figure it out or not.
This is still a hand-wavy argument, and I'm not fully in tune with the nuts-and-bolts of the implementations of these tools (both in terms of the LLM themselves and the infrastructure on top of it), but here is the intuition I have for explaining why these kinds of hallucinations are likely to be endemic:

Essentially, what these tools seem to be doing is a two-leveled approach. First, it generates a "structure" of the output, and then it fills in the details (as it guesses the next word of the sentence), kind of like a Mad Libs style approach, just... a lot lot smarter than Mad Libs. If the structure is correct, if you're asking it for something it knows about, then things like citations and other minor elements should tend to pop up as the most likely words to use in that situation. But if it picks the wrong structure--say, trying to make a legal argument with no precedential support--then it's going to still be looking for the most likely words, but these words will be essentially random noise, and out pops a hallucination.

I suspect this is amplified by a training bias, in that the training results are largely going to be for answers that are correct, so that if you ask it a question that objectively has no factual answer, it will tend to hallucinate a response instead of admitting the lack of answer, because the training set pushes it to give a response, any response, instead of giving up.
You can? Just go into WireGuard settings https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-shadowsocks-obfuscat...
> And how long do you think it would take until the competitor would end up in the same situation?

YouTube ended up in that situation for two reasons. First, the original YouTube before Google bought it was playing fast and loose with the law and was in the process of getting sued over it after Google bought them. Second, Google wants to license Hollywood content for YouTube TV etc. So between wanting to settle the lawsuit and wanting to sell their soul and become Comcast, Google agreed to do a lot of this draconian BS that isn't otherwise required by law.

A competing service that just wants to be YouTube without being YouTube TV could plausibly follow the law without steamrolling the little guy quite as much.
I do. I am not saying they are not useful... I am saying they are not safe. In a world where you care about the safety guarantees of Rust, you'd take an API that insists on manual index management and you would build an abstraction over it that allowed the compiler to prove its correctness using a proof system of some form, maybe borrow checking, or maybe something much more sophisticated.
Which is part of why I didn't put the name in. The essence was that the company might have signed contracts that they knew they wouldn't fulfill.

Of course, salespeople should have professional reputations (e.g., for honesty, or for dishonesty). But don't let them be a scapegoat for the more likely real culprit or bigger fish.
And it learns online.
I don't understand what theoretical basis can even exist for "I don't know" from an LLM, just based on how they work.

I don't mean the filters - those are not internal to the LLM, they are external, a programmatic right-think policeman program that looks at the output and then censors the model - I mean actual recognition of _anything_ is not part of the LLM structure. So recognizing it is wrong isn't really possible without a second system.
The “victor” here is the technology which allowed you to survive into adulthood and fed you inexpensively and clothed you and supports the infrastructure for this forum which lets us have this discussion in the first place. The politics of technology has only itself as its enemy, the conditions which unleashed it held back by their own stubborn insistence.
Its not what the people want its what the elites want. And the Elites want cheap labour which means immigration. The Elites (the ones who favoured Brexit) wanted Brexit because they could write their own rules regarding a lot of things; all to favour their class not the working class.

Immigration was a handy tool with which to entice the working class to vote for Brexit.

Immigration never stopped. It just switched from cheap Eastern European Labour to African and Middle Eastern cheap labour.

Once again the Working Class got duped. They voted for it.
Copyright Industry Wants to Apply Automated Blocking to Core Internet Routers
I don't think the bar is as high as you're saying. It's a hacked together PHP product with 20 years of cruft after that. It was simply the first to become successful. Anything built today would evolve to meet the same demand of ease of use by non technical people, if the momentum of Wordpress wasn't there preventing competition.
Americans [1][2] and pilots [3][4][5] are not that far behind, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines_Flight_...
There’s an accountant shortage, so I imagine it wasn’t hard for those folks to prepare to bail, if they did.
I spent way to long playing with this. Very simple and intuitive. Nice work!
Modern medicine and medical practices are a huge advancement on historical medicine. They save countless lives.

But almost all medicine comes with side effects.

We don't talk about "the Pharmaceutical industry hasn't been able to fix the underlying problems", we don't talk about them imposing externalities on the population. Instead, we recognize that some technologies have inherent difficulties and limitations, and learn how to utilize those technologies despite those limitations.

It's too early to know the exact limitations of LLMs. Will they always suffer from hallucinations? Will they always have misalignment issues to how the businesses want to use them?

Perhaps.

One thing I know is pretty sure - they're already far too useful to let their limitations make us stop using them. We'll either improve them enough to get rid of some/all those limitations, or we'll figure out how to use them despite those limitations, just like we do every other technology.
It's funny, I often hear, for the first time, about interesting projects just as they are shutting down. I wish there was some kind of pre-emptive news service that would tell me about them BEFORE they shutdown! Like maybe some kind of quantum computer internet thing that lets you time travel but just via the web browser.
Or a large hit or even work for free for a prestigious job. Magazines and talent agencies were like this.
See also Dr Krashen's comprehensible (not comprehensive) input theory. Lots of YouTube channels that offer graded videos in this style (to various degrees of adhering to the theory, i.e. some are simply grammar lessons which is not CI). The most well known is probably Dreaming Spanish.

I've had really great success with my children using national TV networks iOS apps with a VPN, e.g. SVT Barn (Swedish), WDR/ZDF/ARD (German), etc
Another related thing I've encountered is positive/growth vs negative/fixed mindset. Often in discussions someone will make a suggestion and someone else will give a reason why that's not feasible. Everyone might be silent for a moment as no one has a solution off-hand to deal with it and the idea is squashed.

One time I made a run-time query optimizer which wasn't all that complicated in any one area but had numerous mechanisms and fall-backs (and a lot of plumbing code). A colleague remarked how he would never have come up with that and listed all the problems which would have needed to be solved along the way to make it all work. I replied that he basically described the roadmap for what I had done step by step. It's sort of like that advice about not giving up on the first "no". Usually a list of reasons why something can't be done rarely contains any actual impossible ones and in many cases can be transformed into a list of things that can.
"Politics permeates everything" just seems to be like overeducated foolery.

What is the test you are using to detect politics, and what is the evidence that it universally detects politics in everything?

And if it detects politics in everything, how do you know the test works? Counterfactuality is lacking. There has to be some calibrating example of something in which the test finds no politics.
Some Ukrainian drones are fully autonomous.

They're not integrated autonomous, as far as I know (e.g. swarms, let alone manufacturing), but if a single drone loses a connection due to jamming, it can strike targets on its own.

It's worth following the rapidly-evolving policies of nations on lethal autonomous systems. The short story is everyone wanted them banned a half-decade ago. Now, everyone realizes that if adversaries have them and they don't, they're dead. As a result, we move from human-in-the-loop to human-on-the-loop to fully autonomous strike vehicles.

That evolves much more quickly in wartime. I suspect if there is a great power conflict, that's when all controls will be let lose.
This is absolutely a counter. There would be no assassination of an Iranian general in Baghdad had he not commanded the insurgency with the sponsored militias in Iraq.
1) First learn a compiled/low-level language, so you can see how things work at a low level and have an appreciation for things like variable sized arrays, strings, and memory - things that are given for "free" in higher level languages (like JavaScript/Python)

- C is my recommendation

C is a very small, simple language. You can build anything in C, and you have to manually manage memory in some cases. You have to build many data structures from scratch.

2) After playing with C, learn a high-level, interpreted language with a large ecosystem.

- I recommend either JavaScript, or Python
>those moral values become more and more outdated.

Do you think there was ever a time in human societies where the vast majority of people didn't have to "work" in some capacity, at least since the rise of psychologically modern humans? If not, why think humanity as a whole can thrive in such an environment?
You’re misunderstanding.

Resources even for nation states are finite. At minimum attention is a finite resource that limits ongoing operations. Active high value targets make sense: defense, infrastructure, finance and even to some extent media.

With that in mind, do you really think they’re interested in a startup that optimizes Google ads? Or how about postgres as a service with no clients of interest?

It’s not that I feel a sense of security but the low success rate script based attacks aren’t what I’m talking about here (or for that matter things like perpetual port scanning of the internet. Every entity seems to do this looking for holes), we are talking about active operations by skilled attackers. There is only so much of that to go around.
This is specifically why I caution people against trusting OpenAI's "we won't train on your data" checkbox. They are specifically financially incentivized to do so, and have a demonstrated history of saying the nice, comforting thing and then doing the thing that benefits them instead.
I just farted; is that political?

Note that absolutely nobody is around.
The correlation alone provides evidence of something worth pursuing and understanding.

They do have some possible causation when considering hippocampus development observed in taxi drivers in other studies.
for 2, why would you ascribe that to the business and not the employees?
At 20k euros, would it not just be cheaper to hire some software people to jailbreak them?

If companies that did this got jailbroken and blacklisted by the government, pretty much nobody would try this bullshit.
What incentive does Youtube have to get this right? They have a major disincentive to ever push back on the content cartels because even one false negative could put them on the hook for trillions of dollars worth of damages, even if it was due to sloppy work on the cartel's part. It is no skin off of Google's back if they take their cut of the revenue from the wrong person, it's all the same to them.

The only way to get Google to care would be for content creators to start abandoning the platform on mass, but they don't really have anywhere to go (sorry Vimeo). Even then Google views content creators as a dime a dozen, so to get the numbers you need to make them notice would be exceptional.
The CCC are heroes and should be celebrated as such.
This seems like a good place to Ask HN: What is the state of Android distros/forks right now anyway? What's the popular works-pretty-well-for-most-people project? What are some obscure or niche gems that could be better known?
> On the other hand reality is much more complex than any game

Untrue. A Taxi driver won't have to worry about elevation changes much at all. Zooming around a computer-generated space in a game might have a lot of that.
excellent analogy. piggybacking on this: a lot of believers (as they are like religious fanatics) claim that more data and hardware will eventually make LLMs intelligent, as if it's even the neuron count matters. There is no other animal close to humans in intelligence, and we don't know why. Somehow though a random hallucinating LLMs + shit loads of electricity would figure it out. This is close to pure alchemy.
And her NY Times op-ed was part of her own strategy to tarnish Depp. There’s a reason they were both found guilty of defamation.
I'm not sure it's equivalent to building a mental map of a 3D space. It certainly might be, but I can also imagine that it might have key differences.
It was for the music wasn't it? The music industry is extremely efficient at flagging videos to claim the revenue.
When I was using Bench, they were only doing cash accounting (not GAAP). We had to switch to a different service when we switched over to accrual accounting.
Would this still hold true in your opinion if models like O3 become super cheap and bit better over time? I don't know much about the AI space, but as a vanilla backend dev also worry about the future :)
The latest update I found is [0] but there aren't any substantial updates about the criminal part of the affair.

https://kolejowyportal.pl/dragon-sector-newag-wprowadza-opin...
The classic on this: "A Boy and a Battery", by Yates. (1959 ed).[1]

There's a whole series, "A Boy and a Motor", etc., all the way up to how to build your own model railroad from scrap, if you have the skills of a master machinist. Plus "Atomic Experiments for Boys". Really.

The Internet Archive has many of these.[2] "Shop Practice for Home Mechanics" is still useful, teaching how to do basic metalwork with simple hand tools. They cover lathe work, all the way up to how to make a crankshaft.

All this dates from an era before the availability of unlimited entertainment for timepass.

[1] https://archive.org/details/boyandbattery00yate/

[2] https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Yates%2C+Raymo...
I never claimed the machines would achieve "human level," however you define it. What I actually wrote at the root of this thread is that we have no way of knowing in advance what the future capabilities of these AI systems might be as we scale them up.
This ("software people to jailbreak them") is exactly the identity of the hackers who have been sued
This is how I read it as well. I hope OP got a significant discount on Bench service in exchange for this kind of agreement.
You understand your final fine grained code after your 'spaghetti' intermezzo. Others and your future you, probably less so.
There is huge gradient between not hating the job and believing in fake mission.
But this isn’t an inherit limitation is it? LLMs can be trained with private information and can have large context windows full of private info
What are your thoughts on neuro-symbolic integration (combining the pattern-recognition capabilities of neural networks with the reasoning and knowledge representation of symbolic AI) ?
Nope, just confirmed, they refused to share SOC2 Report with their paying customers.
On reddit i clearly say that ECS has its uses, such as large teams or games which need to add and remove components often. Most games people write in rust don't fall into those categories. Most people in rust have never heard of generational arenas so i tell them about alternatives.

OTOH you are biased. I didn't even mention bevy, you assumed i was talking about it - what does that say about its qualities? I also didn't mention ECS, I just said some architectures are way more verbose and you brought up ECS. Again, what does it say about its qualities?

You only focus on me, not on what I say.

You started by insulting me "bitch and moan", "broken opinion", "Just admit it, you are a reactionary" and you're rightfully getting flagged.

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Stop treating game engines like football clubs, stop being emotional about it, it's just a tool, use tools that work for you but don't force them on others and don't pretend they're the only tools available.
Yes, but the Christmas Market attack in Berlin in 2016 was committed by a jihadi.
Some service. I’m not saying you have to trust what I trust.

Personally I’m a big 1Password fan and have been in the Apple ecosystem for a very long time as well.

Most security folks I trust also vouch for them, as far as practices and effectiveness goes of their software.

But you’ll need to trust something somewhere, and you might even need to expose it to a network in some cases.

The one thing I really like about Yubikey is it doesn’t require a network connection at all to work, but it never caught on generally for that model to be widespread supported so I have found while I do use my Yubikey a fair amount there are still things that don’t accept it that I wish did
Just to be clear, this breach mostly affects non-EV cars. Even my stick shift, manual window crank car came with a hidden cellular data modem, collecting my GPS location by default.
Now this is gonna shock you, but USSR is Russia.

Russia created the USSR as a legal framework to exert power over its neighbors. This was engineered by Stalin himself.

The most important feature of Russian culture is the sentiment that Russia is great but the world is conspiring to put it down. That's 100% the same in present day Russia as it was in the USSR. They're the same.